*** Mattias Andrée [2021-04-13 20:48]: >But interesting, even though Keccak (from which SHA-3 is >derived) won over BLAKE2, BLAKE2 seems to be more popular.
Keccak won over "BLAKE". "BLAKE2" is reduced-round tweaked "BLAKE" version. BLAKE2 is very fast, having very high security margin and abilities to use it as a MAC, add randomization/personalization -- that it why it is popular. -- Sergey Matveev (http://www.stargrave.org/) OpenPGP: CF60 E89A 5923 1E76 E263 6422 AE1A 8109 E498 57EF